TikiWiki is in the fifth year of its lifespan and already it helped to build up thousands of websites & Intranets. This confirms the point that Tiki is an extremely powerful application.

Loads of features and a large community of contributors characterize TikiWiki.

As open source software, many programmers with different skill level have changed, modified, and improved the solution.

Over 250 people have contributed to Tiki via CVS. This is a proof of the software’s scalability. It’s developed by a large number of contributors from all over the world which forms the Tiki Community. Currently it boasts of 12379 registered users and 259 developers at this site.

No other Open Source projects boast of the contributions of as many contributors. Add to it countless others who have helped it improve by providing support in the areas of tech support, testing, documentation, etc. The huge contribution record proves that TikiWiki community provides a friendly platform for accessing to other people, sharing ideas among them and getting help wherever necessary. Most of the community members try to come up with the assistance that was asked from them.

Thus it is basically the supportive community that helped the software to be what it is today; a powerful wiki-based Content Management System (CMS), Groupware, Blogging System, Image/File Gallery, Bug Tracker and GeoCMS. Powered by PHP, ADOdb and Smarty and released as a Free Open Source Software under LGPL, it can be used to create all sorts of web applications, sites, portals, intranets and extranets.

TikiWiki community is a ragtag community of developers. It is not sponsored by a large business like other commercial projects. It is true that many Tiki developers have (Read more ...)

The fact of IT market rapid development is not news for everybody.

Nowadays a company without it’s permanent representation in the WWW-web site is a real rarity. It can be promotional web site that is aimed to inform audience about the company’s business and its mission or on-line store. Users` personal web sites, forums, blogs and conferences, private domain names and web mail systems, all these has become such an ordinary thing for us every day.

This is incontestable fact that any web site can’t exist without a web server and without web hosting service provider and with the growth of web sites number and growth of web hosting companies number in the world, it goes without saying that the demands made on web hosting provider grow and undergo a change, as web hosting company provides the services that go between you (your web site) and end-user, for which your website exists.

New standards of web hosting business presume fully functional services, support of such scripting languages as PHP, Perl, Java. CGI. The ease of control and management of your web hosting account via control panel. While choosing your web hosting service provider we recommend you not to forget about the following things and standards that any company should follow:

- stable operating system installed on the web hosting server ( Red Hat Enterprise Linux);

- multifunction user control panel;

- feature-rich account control panel, such as cPanel, Pleask, Directadmin (depends on the web hosting provider)

- money-back guarantees provided

- availability of technical support

- additional full-time or part-time phone support for free

- multiply domains hosting on one account

- some benefits for free that (Read more ...)

Content management systems—-these days you find them in stacks—well, almost. But few of them are user friendly in the true sense of the term. But you can not bring this allegation against PHP Post Nuke content/ interactive portal management system, you certainly can not.

Started as one of the forks of PHP Nuke, PHP Post Nuke is undoubtedly the more stable and more secure content management solution. By the virtue of being open source, it supports a far more democratic developers’ community and that gets reflected in its feature list and modules. If the user’s perspective is the best way of judging the merit of any product, then you get a rather long list of praise-worthy features from the horse’s mouth. Here is just the gist of them:

• Under the GPL license you can download the application easily and step-by-step and for free.

• It provides you the easiest solution for setting up a site that allows for community posting, internal messages system between users, ability to publish News articles, post comments against articles, display of messages to specific groups on the site, review anything, search your site for a specified word or phrase.

• It is also provided with Permissions control feature that allows certain members access to add downloads, but not administrate any other part of the website. This feature also makes it possible to create a subscriber based website where subscribers are entitled to receive added functionalities.

• It also allows the user to control the look and feel of the site through a flexible and user friendly theme system. This can be done by changing HTML and not PHP code.

• The system comes with built in catching resulting into higher speed for your web site and (Read more ...)

To hit it right in the cyber world you must have a good up to date website and for that you need to invest in an efficient content management system. There are instances where big companies poured thousands of dollars into developing an efficient Content management system only to be rewarded with zero result in the end.

You must take your lesson from them; you have to try to find out where they went wrong!

There is a secret behind every success story; you have to dig out that secret to write your own success story. In case of content management system, the secret lies in finding out a multi-faceted content management system that is modular, stable, and free.

This leads us to precisely suggest that you should go for the Xoops CMS, as it is the only software that rolls all our above mentioned requirements into a single package.

In order to explain why Xoops offer you the most inexpensive, yet powerful CMS solution, first we have to know what I meant by the term, Content management.

Like the planning behind a gala event, CMS is the brain behind different types of websites. It is actually a unique programming— a computer software system on which depend such factors as the security of the website, the look and feel of it and how user friendly it is! The software helps in organizing and helping in collaborative creation of documents, articles and different other content types. A CMS may also need special client software for editing and constructing articles.

Now Xoops makes an amazing content management system that stands out in the crowd of other open source solutions available in the market.

The Xoops CMS can provide a powerful backend support to all types of your websites contents. It is a software written in (Read more ...)

To succeed remain interactive

The modern internet marketing is largely dependent on the dynamics of interactive websites. And a result oriented web hosting service provider like Frontier Power hosting sees to it that you have all the technologies at your disposal to keep your site interactive.

Those unaware of the value of quality web hosting service often end up in searching for various types of scripts and plug in contents to keep their site interactive. But what happens when you decide to take the service from a top grade web hosting service provider as Frontier Power hosting? Well, you get some amazing scripts preloaded in your account which can be accessed by simply clicking your mouse button in your Web control panel.

In addition to e-mail or other e-commerce scripts, you also get a number of content management scripts and PHP-Nuke is the part of this content development process.

How PHP-Nuke influences the content management system?

Originally started as a fork of the Thatware news portal system, PHP-Nuke soon went to become the number one web based automated news publishing and content management system.

So how does it help us the web hosting service providers?

• This Web Portal System or content management system allows a webmaster to create a community-based portal along with an automated web site.

• The entire system makes it possible both for the users as well as the editors to post contents.

• It also provides comments system that is accessed by the users to post their comments.

To inject more dynamism to your website

The PHP-Nuke system is armed with core modules such as News, FAQ and Private Messaging.

• But a versatile web host like Frontier Power (Read more ...)